Year after year, there are countless individuals and organizations that help to make PulpFest a great show. The PulpFest organizing committee would like them for their invaluable assistance in helping to make PulpFest 2018 a success. We could not have done it without you:
Our front desk staff – Samantha Childers, Samuel Childers, Jack Cullers, and Sally Cullers; our panelists and presenters – Roger Alford, Jim Beard, John Bruening, Christopher Paul Carey, Wayne Carey, Mike Chomko, Mike Croteau, Tony Davis, Bob Deis, Wyatt Doyle, Win Scott Eckert, Henry G. Franke, III, Robert & Loretta Gould, Don Hutchison, Chris Kalb, Sara Light-Waller, Chuck Loridans, Peter McGarvey, Bill Mann, Michelle Nolan, Gary Rabuzzi, David Saunders, Frank Schildiner, Sai Shankar, and Paul Spiteri; our technical staff – Chuck Welch and J. Welch; our auction staff — John Gunnison and Joseph Saine; and our behind-the-scenes help – Peter Chomko, Dan Zimmer, and Allyssa Tudor and the terrific staff of the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry.
Many thanks to Joe Lansdale and his wife, Karen, for being our very special guests. Joe was on hand all throughout the convention. We also want to thank Mark Wheatley for his terrific art show.
Many thanks to Mike Chomko, Jack Cullers, Barry Traylor, and Chuck and J. Welch for all the hours devoted to assembling this year’s auctions.
The organizing committee would also like to thank the people who helped to create THE PULPSTER #27 – editor Bill Lampkin, assistant editor Peter Chomko, publisher Mike Chomko, Schuerholz Printing, plus contributors Tony Davis, Tom Krabacher, Joe R. Lansdale, and David W. Smith. We also have to thank Meteor House and the families of the late George Evans and Albert Tonik for their contributions to the issue. Many thanks are offered to the magazine’s advertisers – AbeBooks, Black Hood Press, Bold Venture Press and Stuart Hopen, Confluence, Heartwood Auctions, IDW, Larque Press, Lycophos Press and Bob Stewart, Meteor House, Mike Chomko Books, New Texture, Pegana Press, the Pulp Factory Awards, Stark House Press, ThePulp.Net, and the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention.
Many thanks to the nominators and Lamont Award, Munsey Award, and Rusty Hevelin Service Award winners who helped to select the winner of this year’s Munsey, William Lampkin. Congratulations to Bill and to all of the nominees for our 2018 award. Thank you to 2016 Lamont winner David Saunders for presenting this year’s award and to Mike Chomko for accepting the award in Bill’s absence.
We’d like to thank the following organizations for the books and similar items that were donated to PulpFest for distribution to our members: Airship 27, Chaosium, Inc., Gordon Van Gelder and THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, Larque Press, Mike Chomko, Books, and Radio Archives. We would also like to the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention for loaning the convention their sound system. Thanks as well to our website sponsors: AbeBooks.com, SmartWritingService.com, and DoMyEssay.net.
Thanks must also be extended to AbeBooks, Meteor House Press, and the members of the PulpFest organizing committee for sponsoring this year’s hospitality suite at the DoubleTree.
Finally, thanks to Ron Adams and Monster Bash, Jim Beard, Doug Ellis, Steve Ericson, Martin Grams, Steve Hager, Jeff Harper, Todd McDevitt and New Dimension Comics, Curt Phillips, Rick Thomas, Ray Walsh and the Curious Book Shop, Publicity Chair Karen Yun-Lutz and Confluence, and the many conventions, book and paper fairs, bookstores, comic and collectible shops, web sites, magazines, newspapers, and other media outlets that helped to promote our show by distributing and displaying our advertising materials.
Special thanks must be extended to Jesseca Muslin — who wrote about PulpFest for PITTSBURGH MAGAZINE — Christopher Bowser of Geek’s Guide to Pittsburgh, Mike Robertson from VisitPittsburgh, and Julie Oreskovich of AbeBooks. We also want to thank Richard Davies and BEHIND THE BOOKSHELVES for giving us an opportunity to talk about pulps and PulpFest on the AbeBooks podcast.
Thank you as well to the dealers, attending members and supporting members of PulpFest 2018. It was due to your encouragement and support that our convention was successful. We hope to see all of you in the coming year — along with a good many newcomers — for PulpFest 2019.
If we’ve neglected anyone, please accept our apology and our gratitude. Write to mike@pulpfest.com and we will correct the oversight.
Your PulpFest organizing committee — Mike Chomko, Jack Cullers, Sally Cullers, Bill Lampkin, Barry Traylor, and Chuck Welch
(Designed by PulpFest’s artistic director, William Lampkin, our PulpFest 2018 welcome banner — sponsored by AbeBooks.com — features the work of freelance artist Mel Hunter. His painting was originally used as the cover to the May 1960 number of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, celebrating its 70th year of publication in 2019.)
